Resolution MSC.225(82)

ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE CODE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT OF SHIPS CARRYING LIQUEFIED GASES IN BULK, AS AMENDED

(adopted on 8 December 2006)

THE MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE,

RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,

RECALLING ALSO resolution A.328(IX), by which the Assembly, at its ninth session, adopted the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk (Gas Carrier Code) and authorized the Committee to amend the Code as may be necessary,

NOTING resolution MSC.220(82), by which it adopted pertinent amendments to the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk (IGC Code),

RECOGNIZING the need for the amendments to the Gas Carrier Code to become effective on the date, on which the corresponding amendments to the IGC Code enter into force,

HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-second session, amendments to the Gas Carrier Code prepared by the Sub-Committee on Bulk Liquids and Gases, at its ninth session,

1. ADOPTS amendments to the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk, as amended, the text of which is set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

2. DETERMINES that the above-said amendments should become effective on 1 July 2008.

Annex.

AMENDMENTS TO THE CODE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT OF SHIPS CARRYING LIQUEFIED GASES IN BULK, AS AMENDED

CHAPTER XI.